1. Presented by Dr. Janet Wall Sr. Trainer, O*NET Academy
An O*NET Academy Briefing: O*NET Tools for School Counselors, Counselor Educators, and Other Career Development Professionals
Presented by
Dr. Janet Wall
Sr. Trainer, O*NET Academy

2. Webinar Objectives
Show how O*NET materials and services support professional career development guidelines
Review various free materials and services that school counselors can use for their career development programs

3. Three Important Documents for School Counselors
Vision into Action: National Standards for School Counseling Programs (ASCA)
National Career Development Guidelines (US Department of Education)
Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act

4. Vision into Action National Standards for School Counseling Programs
Academic Development
Personal/Social Development
Career Development

5. Career Development Standard I:
Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
Standard II:
Students will employ strategies to achieve future career success and satisfaction.
Standard III:
Students will understand the relationship among personal qualities, education and training, and the world of work.

6. National Career Development Guidelines
Domain 1:
Personal Social Development
Domain 2:
Educational Achievement and Lifelong Learning
Domain 3:
Career Management

7. Career Management
CM1 - Create and manage a career plan that meets your career goals.
CM2 - Use a process of decision-making as one component of career development.
CM3 - Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information during career planning and management.
CM4 - Master academic, occupational, and general employability skills in order to obtain, create, maintain, and/or advance your employment.
CM5 - Integrate changing employment trends, societal needs, and economic conditions into your career plans.

8. Perkins Employment statistics Information on industries
Information for career awareness and planning
Education and training information
High wage, high demand jobs
Alignment of programs with objectives, industry requirements

9. O*NET Information Supports Career and Technical Education Efforts
Provides unbiased and accurate information
Specifies wages by state and nationally
Documents occupational trends and outlook
Offers assessment tools for learning about oneself
Shows students how personal characteristics are related to the world-of work
Shows how education and training relates to occupations
Supports decision-making by supplying credible occupational, educational, and job information
Includes in demand occupations, emerging occupations

10. What is O*NET Dynamic system of occupational information
Frequently updated
Based on Information from job incumbents and employers (comprehensive)
Supporting tools
Assessments
Job information
Financial aid
O*NET Online

11. Find Occupational Information

13. Note search fields.

15. Tasks, Tools and Technology, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Work Activities, Work Context, Job Zone (education and training), Interests, Work Values, Related Occupations, Wages and Employment, Additional Information

16. T&T – New Feature

17. Knowledge and Skills

18. Work Context

19. Interests and Work Styles

20. Work Values and Related Occupations

21. Wages and Employment Trends, Additional Information

22. Search by Skills

23. Skill Search

24. Select Skills from List
Basic Skills, Complex Problem Solving Skills, Resource Management Skills, System Skills, and Technical Skills

25. 60 Matches Using 10 Skills
Click on occupational title to obtain Summary Report

26. Search by Interest Area

27. Search by Interests

28. Select Primary Interest Area

29. Related Occupational Listing

30. Career Info Net Provides significant information
Can be reached on its own or through O*NET Online

31. Significant Resources for You

32. Occupational Information

33. Career Videos

34. Skills Gap Analysis
Exercise that compares one’s current skills and level of performance to requirements of an occupation

36. Other Resources

37. Education and Training – Select Job Family

38. Select Occupation

39. Select Level and Location

40. Results

41. Assistance with Pell Grants

42. Student Financial Aid Guides

43. Scholarship Search

44. 10 Results

45. Career Assessment Tools
Three high quality instruments
Use for career exploration and career guidance
Not for job selection or selection into job training programs.
Can be downloaded for your use from

46. Interest Profiler
What Do You Like to Do?

47. Work Interest Areas R I A S E C Realistic Artistic Enterprising
Investigative
Social
Conventional

48. The Work Importance Profiler
What Do You Value?

49. Work Value Areas A I R R S W Achievement Recognition Support
Working Conditions
Independence
Relationships

50. What are your work-related skills?
The Ability Profiler
What can you do?
What are your work-related skills?

51. Eleven Subtests Non-Psychomotor Psychomotor Arithmetic Reasoning
Power
Speeded
Non-Psychomotor
Psychomotor
Arithmetic Reasoning
Mark Making (paper/pencil)
Vocabulary
Place
Three-Dimensional Space
Turn
Computation
Assemble
Name Comparison
Disassemble
Object Matching

52. Links to Occupations
All three assessment instruments link results back to occupations
About 800 occupations
These occupations can be explored via O*NET Online

53. O*NET and Career Clusters
From… State Directors of Career and Technical Education at

54. Career Clusters

55. Career Clusters

56. Cluster Pathways
occupations
pathways

57. Review of Tools
How O*NET relates to the ASCA standards and the new National Career Development Guidelines
How to find occupational information
How to search for occupational information by skills
How to search occupational information by interest area
How to find financial aid information
How to find higher education information
Find and use quality assessment tools
Locating information on career clusters

58. Concluding Remarks
There is an old Chinese proverb that says …… "Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

59. Questions?

60. Tons of Tools for School Counselors Important Websites
   
Tons of Tools for School Counselors
O*NET Resource Center   ONET Online   Skills Gap Analysis
Career Info Net
Student Financial Aid Information
 Financial Aid Advisor
College Search
O*NET Academy
Career Cluster
Important Websites

61. Opportunities for You
Spotlight on O*NET Knowledge Site – contact
Podcast – audio interview
Special User Webinars
Contact me at

62. Supporting Webinars
How to Download and Use the O*NET Interest Profiler and Work Importance Profiler
Overview of the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Administer the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Interpret the Ability Profiler
Whole Person Assessment
O*NET Tools for Job Seekers and Students
O*NET Enhancements
O*NET for Military in Transition